Re: What is the learning curve for PHP?

On 2007-04-03 06-22-12, K.J.Williams wrote:
1. [...] I have tried CSS on myspace.com and their server was terrible
when I was trying to customize my page layout. I have no idea what their
using but its terrible. The font colors wouldnt not work right.

If it can serve files, it's sufficient for CSS. Did you consider your HTML
or CSS might simply be wrong?


2. [...] There is one problem with Javascripting ( and HTML ) the
features of of the langauge is not totally universal with IE or
Mozilla/Firefox/ Netscape so in every Java Script, there has to be a
conditional statement which catches the web browsers type and use the
best most procedures - this might make my work with PHP not very easy
for web page generation.

Nope. JavaScript is what Netscape does. MSIE does not implement the whole
bunch of JavaScript functionality, but adds its own features. The result is
called JScript.


3. [...] One crazy question is PHP derived from Perl , like C++ is derived
from C?

In it's early days, PHP was just a bunch of Perl scripts. But that's
ancient PHP history.
Similarly, C++ isn't really a derive of C, even if it was years ago.
Nowadays, C++ bases on C features as well as C bases on C++ features.
Feature distribution works in both ways here.


4. I got another book PHP ...

If you want book, I can suggest the novels of Douglas Preston & Lincold
Child, Sidney Sheldon, Wolfgang Hohlbein (don't know the English
translations of him, though) and others.
If you want to learn PHP, however, your #1 resource is <http://php.net> and
it's awesome manual.
.

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